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RE: Halp! How old should my characters be? :V - Tiergan - 07-23-2015

(07-23-2015, 05:15 PM)Seriphyn Wrote: If you speak to an NPC near the dragoon monument not far from Falcon's Nest, he mentions it has been 'five years' since the Calamity, just as it said at the beginning of 2.0. Alas.

Holy crap really?

... Damn. I.... might just start RPing my characters in a time bubble then and freeze their ages. I just wanted to celebrate birthdays. ;A; Maybe they'll just be turning the same age every year in a Ground Hog's Day fashion.

RE: Halp! How old should my characters be? :V - Shoshopu - 07-24-2015

(07-23-2015, 11:24 PM)Tiergan Wrote:
(07-23-2015, 05:15 PM)Seriphyn Wrote: If you speak to an NPC near the dragoon monument not far from Falcon's Nest, he mentions it has been 'five years' since the Calamity, just as it said at the beginning of 2.0. Alas.

Holy crap really?

... Damn. I.... might just start RPing my characters in a time bubble then and freeze their ages.  I just wanted to celebrate birthdays. ;A;  Maybe they'll just be turning the same age every year in a Ground Hog's Day fashion.

Maybe that NPC just likes rounding to fives. Maybe the sixth year hasn't rolled around to the date yet. Wasn't it someone on the lore team who suggested the NPCs ingame are unreliable sources anyway? :p Don't let one NPC ruin your fun! I can almost guarantee no one will try to play lore-hound on you for progressing your RP over time as opposed to RPing as if everything was frozen in time, because.... obviously it's not, right?

RE: Halp! How old should my characters be? :V - Unnamed Mercenary - 07-24-2015

(07-23-2015, 11:24 PM)Tiergan Wrote:
(07-23-2015, 05:15 PM)Seriphyn Wrote: If you speak to an NPC near the dragoon monument not far from Falcon's Nest, he mentions it has been 'five years' since the Calamity, just as it said at the beginning of 2.0. Alas.

Holy crap really?

... Damn. I.... might just start RPing my characters in a time bubble then and freeze their ages.  I just wanted to celebrate birthdays. ;A;  Maybe they'll just be turning the same age every year in a Ground Hog's Day fashion.

That's sorta how I treat age! Every new year is effectively a loop back to the beginning. So while the timeline might be frozen, we are technically advancing. If you wanna celebrate birthdays, do so! (Although Franz will probably never because nobody wants a grumpy old Garlean walking around)

RE: Halp! How old should my characters be? :V - Virella - 07-24-2015

It is final.

Virella will be pregnant forever.

No really, this is sort of confusing the living hell out of me x_X

RE: Halp! How old should my characters be? :V - ArmachiA - 07-24-2015

Armi is pretty much forever 23 until the Devs come in and say time has passed. Birthdays are celebrated in a bubble, when time passes those events become canon until then they stay locked in the bubble. I've canonically celebrated one of her birthdays (22-->23) because it would have been within the very short timeline of FFXIVs story bubble. When they tell me how much time has actually passed, all events in her life will be retrofitted into that timeline.

I hate age in MMOs. I always try to keep it vague as hell, but when asked - she's 23.

RE: Halp! How old should my characters be? :V - Sylentmana - 07-27-2015

Here's how I've been treating it. From the beginning of the game to the start of 3.0 is roughly one year. The actual date is dependent on where a character is in the story. In this situation, each character kind of exists in different dates from one another, but I find this to be a fairly easy way of dealing with it.

RE: Halp! How old should my characters be? :V - Flickering Ember - 07-28-2015

(07-23-2015, 05:15 PM)Seriphyn Wrote: If you speak to an NPC near the dragoon monument not far from Falcon's Nest, he mentions it has been 'five years' since the Calamity, just as it said at the beginning of 2.0. Alas.

Oh, wow, really? I am going to check this out. I know NPCs can be unreliable but it is the closest thing we have to an answer at this point.

RE: Halp! How old should my characters be? :V - Unnamed Mercenary - 07-28-2015

(07-28-2015, 03:12 PM)Flickering Ember Wrote:
(07-23-2015, 05:15 PM)Seriphyn Wrote: If you speak to an NPC near the dragoon monument not far from Falcon's Nest, he mentions it has been 'five years' since the Calamity, just as it said at the beginning of 2.0. Alas.

Oh, wow, really? I am going to check this out. I know NPCs can be unreliable but it is the closest thing we have to an answer at this point.

But we've known it's been 5 years from the Calamity. That was the 1.0 -> 2.0 timeframe. Nothing in the game speaks about 2.0 -> 3.0 at this time.

RE: Halp! How old should my characters be? :V - Tiergan - 07-28-2015

(07-24-2015, 12:37 AM)Unnamed Mercenary Wrote: (Although Franz will probably never because nobody wants a grumpy old Garlean walking around)

Are you kidding, that just intensifies people's determination to throw him a birthday party in an attempt to un-grumpify him. :V

RE: Halp! How old should my characters be? :V - D'aito Kuji - 08-02-2015

I've mostly just ignored in-game time because I feel like I have to.  So much goes on in the MSQ that I simply don't believe that it could be done in a year or two or maybe even three.

I play my characters in real time based on the time the game started or my involvement in it.  I came to the FFXIV a few months after launch so exactly that much time has passed.  D'aito is now around level 43, has some experience in fishing, crafting, gladiator style fighting, and a few pugilist lessons (real time helps me justify the gaps when I'm unable to play consistently).

She arrived in Limsa Lominsa around her 20th summer solstice and she is now presumably 22.

Like with most things MMO, I have my game canon, my cooperative RP canon, and my own private canon.  I'm more strict when it comes to my private canon but if there's group consensus in the FC about how much time has passed, I stick with that.

RE: Halp! How old should my characters be? :V - Kage - 08-03-2015

I haven't found specific anything.

The only things I know. From the Calamity to beginning of 2.0, it was 5 years.

From 2.55 to 3.0, it was just a few days to a couple of weeks.
Quote:Q: Story-wise how much time has passed since the end of Patch 2.55 and the beginning of Heavensward?
A: While there is no specific mention of how much time has passed in-game, it’s about a few days to a few weeks after the events that took place during Patch 2.55. You can think of this time as the time that passed while Haurchefant was speaking with the people of House Fortemps, and the expansion begins when the Warrior of Light’s entry to Ishgard has been approved, so it’s not like months have passed.


RE: Halp! How old should my characters be? :V - Sounsyy - 08-11-2015

Further confirmation of the Time Bubble today:

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Haermaga Wrote:Ever since the Bombards were beat back five years ago...

This of course is referencing the 1.0 (2012) Seasonal Event: Bombard Backlash, which took place in 1572 6AE, 5 years ago.
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So even though in the text that follows, where Haermaga mentions your attendance to last year's Moonfire Faire (if you attended), the Calamity still only happened 5 years ago. So the bubble persists, officially.

RE: Halp! How old should my characters be? :V - Melkire - 08-11-2015

(08-11-2015, 04:29 PM)Sounsyy Wrote:
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Do note that this was probably done because this event is accessible even by 2.0 players. This does NOT mean that people caught up with current in-universe events are still stuck in time perpetually at "five years post-Calamity" even though people will read it that way.

RE: Halp! How old should my characters be? :V - Kage - 08-11-2015

(08-11-2015, 04:47 PM)Melkire Wrote:
(08-11-2015, 04:29 PM)Sounsyy Wrote:
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Haermaga Wrote:Ever since the Bombards were beat back five years ago...
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Do note that this was probably done because this event is accessible even by 2.0 players. This does NOT mean that people caught up with current in-universe events are still stuck in time perpetually at "five years post-Calamity" even though people will read it that way.
Uh, I wouldn't say that with such certainty. I'm not sure what you mean by being "accessible even by 2.0 players" making any difference to the time bubble persisting. This event has happened last year for 1.0 and 2.0 players alike. Now, 3.0 players can play.

RE: Halp! How old should my characters be? :V - V'aleera - 08-11-2015

I think what Sounsyy was trying to imply is that the event may be considered to be a part of the pre-3.0 time bubble, much like the cooking quest with Nanamo or the DRG job quests.